{"id":83,"date":"2018-06-12T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:59:25","slug":"remote-control-of-panasonic-aw-he40-ptz-camera-through-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Remote Control of Panasonic AW-HE40 PTZ Camera through Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a Panasonic AW-HE40 located in each auditorium at my church to allow the control room operators to see the space. We also occasionally use them as on-screen cameras since they have HD-SDI outputs. The quality is surprising for the size of the device.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-85 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw-he40swpj_2_1024_0.jpg\" alt=\"aw-he40swpj_2_1024_0\" width=\"276\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cameras come with a fully functional webpage that allows you to control them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/screen-shot-2018-06-12-at-9-26-40-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-06-12 at 9.26.40 AM\" width=\"932\" height=\"694\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By peeking around at the code some, I was able to figure out how to send HTTP requests to change presets of the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my Ross Dashboard custom panel that allows our volunteers to quickly pull up presets:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86\" style=\"width: 685px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86\" src=\"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/screen-shot-2018-06-12-at-11-41-45-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-06-12 at 11.41.45 AM\" width=\"685\" height=\"658\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The panel allows the user to see the camera&#8217;s viewing angle and select a pre-defined preset. Presets can be modified within the existing web interface for the camera. A Setup tab is also available to configure the IP address of the camera you wish to control.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you use my panel, you&#8217;ll still need to manage\/modify the presets using the existing interface. We don&#8217;t change our presets often, so I didn&#8217;t feel the need to recreate any other functionality than recalling presets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made this panel available on Github here if you can benefit from it: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/josephdadams\/RossDashboardPanels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/josephdadams\/RossDashboardPanels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a Panasonic AW-HE40 located in each auditorium at my church to allow the control room operators to see the space. We also occasionally use them as on-screen cameras since they have HD-SDI outputs. The quality is surprising for the size of the device. The cameras come with a fully functional webpage that allows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=83\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remote Control of Panasonic AW-HE40 PTZ Camera through Dashboard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,22,29,38,50,51,68,76],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-church","tag-dashboard","tag-javascript","tag-ministry","tag-production","tag-programming","tag-technology","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}